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"... And in port cities like Odessa and Istanbul, just as in New Orleans, a kaleidoscope of peoples - Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Roma, Bulgarians, Romanians, Tatars and many others - blended the sensibilities of East and West into the urban pulse of this turn-of-the-century melodic realm. "Source" is a New World tribute to this musical confluence, the ghost dance of a vanished empire, a doina for the millennium.". Michael Alpert.